Improvement in the mode of constructing temples for looms



UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMORY A. ANGELL, OF KILLINGLY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE OF CONSTRUCTING TEMPLES FOR LOOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 987, dated October 19, 1838,

Temples for Looms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

This temple is of the kind which holds the selvage of the cloth between jaws, which are opened by the beat of the lathe, and is in many respects similar to such as have been long in use.

In the accompanying drawings the whole instrument and its respective parts are represented of the ordinary size for actual use.

A A, Figure 1, is an iron plate, which is fastened to the breast-beam by a bolt or screw passing through the slot or opening o.. The slots b b are to admit studs or screws upon the under side of the lower jaw, Fig. 2, beneath the dotted lines b b, which studs or screws slide in said slots and have shoulders which prevent the jaw from rising. c is a spring fastened to the edge of the plate at c, its other end being in a slot cl, out in the edge of the lower part of the jaw. Fig. 3 is the upper jaw, the jaw part d corresponding in length and width with d', Fig. 2, upon which it lies. The back plates e e are also, in general, of equal length and width. Pins f f upon one of these jaws fall into corresponding holes in the other, retaining them in their proper places, and servin g also as hinge-joints, allowing the jaws to open when the trigger g, Fig. 4, is struck by the lathe, Fig; 4 being an edge view of the temple. A spring fi, Fig. 7, is screwed or otherwise fastened to the end plate at j of -the'lower jaw, its opposite end pressing upon the projecting plate or wing k of the upper jaw and causing it to close. Against the lower side of this plate the trigger g operates.

Fig. 5 is a top View of the temple, the corresponding parts in this and the other gures 4being designated by the same letters of refer- The manner in which the upper and lower j jaws are combined-that is to say, by pins forming the hiuge-joints of the jawsthe whole being constructed substantially in the manner herein set forth.

EMGRY A. ANGELL. Witnesses:

STOWELL L.- WELD, THOMAS BAoKUs. 

